Early Christmas greetings to you and yours, it's Episode 83 of the Hollywood Booze, the sort of Christmasy podcast from the folks at the Hollywood News. Open your stockings wide, for we are about to fill them to the brim with news of Bryan Singer following X-MEN: DAYS OF FUTURE PAST with X-MEN: APOCALYPSE, TERMINATOR: GENESIS casting rumours, Ben Stiller going back to his roots with ZOOLANDER 2, Dexter Fletcher taking on the Freddie Mercury biopic, and a follow up to last Christmas' box office hit JACK REACHER starring everyone's favourite action munchkin, Tom Cruise.

Also this Episode witness Dan Fraser taking on this week's box office pundown, Joseph Upton bamboozling his co-hosts with silver-screen santas in Hollywood ho-ho-who? And Dave Bennett cramming a whole host of obscure movies into Wham's Last Christmas. Famous as we now are, we haven't forgotten about the little people. Dan Fraser Gives you his Verdict on this week's big release THE HOBBIT: THE DESOLATION OF SMAUG.